Thank you so much for making this available!
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parzival

Hi Daniel, This sounds very interesting, although I know next to nothing about Husserl, and I've certainly never heard of him in connection to Wagner. I'm curious though as to how you are defining Gesamtkunstwerk, whether you are working primarily with Wagner's theory of it or the actual implementat...

Chafe's "Tristan" book is excellent, one of the best I've read on the subject. The musicology becomes very dense in the latter half though, which was hard for a layman like myself to fully understand.

Paul, I enjoy reading these updates, and your "conspiracy" stories made me laugh; I have a few myself, though nothing as funny as that poor couple wandering in on Syberberg! I often try to sneak an act of "Parsifal" in when no one's at home, usually without success... I've been meaning to watch Sybe...

feuerzauber, I think the Kuhnian interpretation of Sachs crisis is both original and insightful, but I don't it necessarily renders the Schopenhauerian aspects obsolete. I'm not sure how one can extricate Sachs from the metaphysical system in which he is so carefully placed. Schopenhauer's view of l...

This is certainly a difficult line, though Schopenhauer is a clear place to start. As you rightly noted, in Schopenhauer's epistemology, time and space, and consequently causality, are the forms by which the intellect perceives objective reality. To transcend these intellectual categories (mere "pre...